A very nice and unique gift for someone that "doesn't want anything". Currently deployed to Iraq, kinda took a chance on this purchase - but it turned out great!! I've book marked the site for further purchases.

SFC Max B.

It seems there are two stories for the beginnings of Thanksgiving in the Autumn of 1621. The Center for World Thanksgiving at Thanks-Giving Square has thrown some light on this subject. The two original writings by Edward Winslow, Mourt's Relation and William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation are linked below along with an analysis of the roots of Thanksgiving. Enjoy the write up and don't forget that Thanksgiving is a time of year to remember your family friends and to be thankful for all the good things.

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Fall Gift Basket with themed cookies, Jelly Belly candy corn, a large box of chocolate wafers, maple flavored hot cocoa, garlic and cheese pretzels, coconut crème candies, fall colored popcorn and Ghirardelli chocolates. Give this gift basket and spread joy this holiday season.

I am so thankful, somewhere along the way I have come to this new place and I love it!

Maybe its this time of year…Its starting to get cooler so the heat isn’t driving everyone insane, you start to get that cozy feeling of holiday spirit and your only two months away from a bran spanking new year, a clean slate where you resolve to make this year better than the last or just as good.

Maybe its all this exercising I have been doing. I ran seven miles yesterday and a total of 15 for last week. Endorphins have been suggested as modulators of the so-called "runner's high" that athletes achieve with prolonged exercise. While the role of endorphins and other compounds as potential triggers of this response has been debated extensively in the literature, it is known that the body does produce endorphins in response to prolonged continuous exercise.

Maybe its because I stopped trying to look like the girls in my shape magazine and started just being happy and accepting what I can and cant change about my body. I can’t change that I am 5’4, sure I would like to have longer legs but who has time to stare in the mirror and wish?

Maybe its because I started reading the newspaper and realized how much I take for granted and how lucky I am to be alive. Did you know that almost 20,000 people die every year from drunk driving accidents? I bet that most of us are not even fazed when the New York Times cover story is a picture of a solider walking through the debris of a suicide bombing. Hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless from the many natural disasters like Katrina, the tornadoes in Iowa or the huge earthquake that just hit in Northern Japan. Not to say that your problems are not important because someone is homeless or a bomb just went off in a café somewhere, its all relative, but whenever you think that you cant take what life is throwing at you it really puts things into perspective.

Maybe its because I started noticing the little things like how its funny that the birds chase the squirrels at school or how the clouds look beautiful around 5pm when the sun starts to set.

Maybe its because I am finally at a point where I am single and I actually like it! Where I don’t feel like I need a relationship to feel this happy. Finally to a point where I realized that I don’t need to be in such a hurry for things to happen to me, like finishing school, getting married and having kids. When those things happen I will have the rest of my life to enjoy them but I only have a short time to get there and so why not have fun while I am here, now. Guess I really understand the meaning of the cliché “Your only young once.”

Maybe its because my family and close friends are the most amazing, loving, selfless people that I know.

Maybe its because when I am sad my mom lets me call her four times a day at all hours so that I can request one of her famous pep talks that always make me stop crying.

Maybe its because my dad offers to beat up the X-boyfriend that hurt me or gets excited when he gets to be the first one to hear my latest news (before mom).

Maybe its because Becky loves me like a sister, tells me my artwork is beautiful when I think its awful and brings me flowers or cooks me dinner to cheer me up.

Maybe its because Amber, Bryson, and Roya accept me for just the way I am and let me tell them my long stories over and over because I forget what I have already told them.

Maybe its because my little sisters and little brother are four more people that I know love me unconditionally and will always be there for me.

Maybe its because of all these things and probably a lot more…maybe…but I do know that there is just too much beauty not to be happy!

JF